BA French and English Literature RQ13

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3
• Year 4

Year 1 Core modules include:

• Advanced French (students with A level French) or Intermediate French language (students with an A at GCSE French)
• Genre and Context
• Poetry in English
• Research and Criticism

Optional modules include:

• The making of modern France
• Introduction to French Culture
• Introduction to Creative Writing
• Persuasive Writing
• Twentieth-Century American Literature

Comparative modules include:

• The Making of Modern Europe (1): Europe to 1945
• The Making of Modern Europe (2): Europe since 1945
• Greats of European Cinema
• Introduction to linguistics

Please note that all modules are subject to change. Year 2 Core modules include:

• Advanced French translation and language skills

Optional modules include:

• Introduction to the French Novel
• Introduction à la littérature de jeunesse
• French Literature Onscreen
• Dissertation
• The Business of Books
• Chaucer and Medieval Narrative
• Communications at work
• Contemporary Literature: Fiction, Poetry, and Drama 1950-present
• Critical Issues
• Early Modern Theatre Practice
• Introduction to Old English Literature
• Literature, Language and Education
• Literature, Language and Media
• Lyric Voices 1340-1650
• Modernism in Poetry and Fiction
• Renaissance Texts and Cultures
• Restoration to Revolution: 1660-1789
• The Romantic Period
• Shakespeare
• Victorian Literature
• Writing America
• Writing and Revising
• Writing, Gender, Identity
• Writing, Genre and the Market

Comparative modules include:

• Society, thought, and art in Modern Europe
• Unity, nationalism and regionalism in Europe
• Science, perversion, and dream in global fantastic literature
• Love in Medieval Renaissance

Please note that all modules are subject to change. Year 3

You can choose from three options for your third year: studying at a partner institution through the Erasmus+ programme, undertaking a work placement or working as a British Council language teaching assistant.

Our French partner institutions include universities in Paris, Lyon, Toulouse, Rennes, Poitiers and Grenoble, as well as prestigious business schools such as Paris-Dauphine and Montpellier. The Department of Modern Languages and European Studies has a study abroad officer who can help you prepare for study at one of these universities.

If you would prefer to undertake a placement for your year abroad, you can also talk to the Department's specialist placement officer, who can provide you with one-to-one support in securing and preparing for it. Past students have carried out roles with companies such as Knight Frank, Hewlett Packard, PSA Peugeot and PwC.

Throughout the course, you will have plenty of opportunity to think about the career path you would like to follow upon graduation. You can also gain valuable first-hand experience in a workplace environment through our innovative placement scheme. This gives you the chance to undertake an academic placement in commerce, industry or the arts. Alternatively, our unique "Communications at work" module enables you to combine the study of the practical use of English with a short placement. These placements are a great way to develop transferable skills that will benefit you in a wide range of careers.

Year 4 Core modules include:

• Advanced French translation and language skills

Optional modules include:

• French Language for Management and Business
• The Legend of Tristan and Iseult
• La Belle Epoque: France 1880-1914
• The French Caribbean: Language, Literature and Identity
• Dissertation
• The African-American Short Story
• Alfred Hitchcock
• American Graphic Novel
• American Poetry: Bishop to Dove
• Black British Fiction
• Children's Literature
• City of Death and Desire: Henry James and Venice
• Class Matters
• Classical and Renaissance Tragedy
• Colonial Explorations
• Contemporary American Fiction
• Decadence and Degeneration: Literature of the 1890s
• Dickens
• Digital Text: Literature and the New Technologies
• Editing the Renaissance
• Eighteenth-Century Novel
• 'Eyes on the Prize': Literature of the US Civil Rights Movement
• Family Romances: Genealogy, Identity, and Imposture in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
• Fiction and Ethnicity in Post-War Britain and America
• Holocaust Fiction
• Holocaust Testimony: Memory, Trauma and Representation
• Irish Poetry
• James Joyce
• John Milton: Poet of the English Republic
• Literature and the Railway
• Margaret Atwood
• Modern American Drama
• Modern Epic
• Modern Scottish Fiction: From Jean Brodie to Trainspotting
• Modern and Contemporary British Poetry
• Modernism and Politics
• Nigerian Prose Literature: From Achebe to Adichie
• Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
• Packaging Literature
• Psychoanalysis and Text
• Restoration Literary Culture: Drama and Poetry, 1660-1700
• Samuel Beckett
• Science in Culture
• Shakespeare and Gender
• Utopia
• Victorian and Edwardian Children's Fantasy
• Victorian Literature and Medicine
• Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury
• The Writer's Workshop: Studying Manuscripts
• Writing Global Justice
• Writing Women: Nineteenth Century Poetry

Comparative modules include:

• EU Case studies I
• EU Case studies II
• EU Case studies III
• Cinemas of the World
• 19th Century European Novel
• Language and Power

Please note that all modules are subject to change.